Roseland School Returns Sacred Treasures to Tribes
Published Date: 4/30/2025
Notice
Summary
The Roseland School District in Santa Rosa, CA, plans to return important Native American cultural items to the right tribes and Native Hawaiian groups. This move respects their heritage and follows the law protecting these sacred objects. The repatriation will happen soon, ensuring these treasures go back where they belong without any cost to the tribes.
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Return of Native cultural items
The Roseland School District in Santa Rosa, CA intends to return Native American cultural items — identified as unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony — to Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The notice states the repatriation will happen soon and that the return will be made without any cost to the tribes.
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